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by zurn 13y ago
Impressive that he managed to say so much without mentioning head-of-line blocking, which is the main TCP problem with realtime apps. This is not due to congestion control, but because of the ordered byte stream semantics of TCP. You can&#x
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by zurn 13y ago
"Because the biochar keeps carbon in the ground for years, even centuries, Cool Planet argues that its process takes more CO2 out of the atmosphere than it adds in." Critical take on biochar from Monbiot: http://www.the
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Can you make gasoline that slows down global warming? Google Ventures thinks so(theverge.com)
1 points by zurn 13y ago|1 comments
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Multiple pre-auth remote vulnerabilities in Openswan/Libreswan IPSec(lists.debian.org)
1 points by zurn 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft will no longer read your email without a court order(boingboing.net)
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by zurn 13y ago
On one hand FP lets you program without thinking too hard about the numerical properties of your program - until you hit a gotcha. On the other hand FP is pretty powerful for many domains if you're a FP wizard. Like physics simulation.
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by zurn 13y ago
If you could do it by stealing a disk, then you could also image the disk on site and beam the data somewhere...
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by zurn 13y ago
Actually Finland has done a lot to trip Greece over (demanding collateral in exchange for loan guarantees, just making their liquidity situation worse). The whole thing was just about the debtor bloc trying to save their own ass while impos
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by zurn 13y ago
No security updates after next versions ships...
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Microsoft breaks into leaker employee's Hotmail without warrant(arstechnica.com)
9 points by zurn 13y ago|3 comments
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by zurn 13y ago
I didn't spot a liquid (without particles) looking demo in the videos - would that be easy to make? Would you be able to make visuals look like Wii's Fluidity game using this easily?
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by zurn 13y ago
Interesting to see if they can sell this, as ~everyone is invested in doing OpenGL. Maybe if Apple put it in all their iOS devices...
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by zurn 13y ago
Wouldn't ray tracing make content production easier, needing fewer tricks to fake behaviour of light and shadow?
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by zurn 13y ago
Depends where you are. Last summer I ordered a laptop from Germany and there was plenty of choice, at least Lenovo and Acer machines were widely available without Windows (variably shipping with FreeDOS, or a console-only Linux env). Saved
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by zurn 13y ago
This is targeted at everybody and there are no fixed routes. You may be remembering the older service route thing (called Jouko): "Service routes are designed to serve, in particular, elderly and mobility impaired people"
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by zurn 13y ago
It does - the stock "unspoiled" version of Android that comes with Nexus devices still has lots and lots of proprietary binary-only code. This post is from the Replicant project, who are trying to build an open source system on to
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by zurn 13y ago
I'd be willing to generalize that it's nice to see fruits available.
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by zurn 13y ago
Thanks for pointing out the Windows dependencies from the page! Lots of people are doing game dev on Mac and Linux, though not so much on the big game studio dept. For example you can do Unity dev (& target all platforms) + iOS dev + An
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by zurn 13y ago
The description says it's for Windows. Anyone know what's blocking it on Mono? Or possibly they've just had a Windows-only target for management reasons and didn't investigate Mono yet?
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by zurn 13y ago
fflush is unrelated to the business of flushing data to disk. It's just a libc FILE* thing. It causes libc to empty the (typically tiny) stdio buffer associated with the FILE* using the write() system call.
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by zurn 13y ago
Good to see this summit involving the kernel developers, since their past situation sounds rather bleak interaction-wise: using kernel version from 2009 and haven't tested the improvements in the (2012) 3.2 kernel. BTW, Linux provides
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by zurn 13y ago
Looks superficially similar to the WebGL terrain 3-parter at http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JasmineKent/20130904/199521/ - are there differences?
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by zurn 13y ago
This is fiction. At best (long journeys) planes have per-seat co2 emissions comparable to an entire 5-person car, that's 5x. On journeys where planes actually compete with cars, double that. Add to that the 2-4x multiplier (greenhouse
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by zurn 13y ago
Skillfully phrased, you get nods from both camps ;)
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by zurn 13y ago
Of the languages you listed, only Ocaml is remotely ready for production use and it's half-dead.
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by zurn 13y ago
> The Unix guys showed us the way out, by (a) inventing the first non-assembler language really suitable for systems programming, and (b) proving it by writing an operating system in it. Not the first, see eg. Burroughs mainframes, early
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by zurn 13y ago
It will be a sign of things to come to see how many releases are supported on the first-generation Firefox OS phone that I have (ZTE Open). This doesn't mention it, and a quick Googling doesn't show any positive signs... anyone kn
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by zurn 13y ago
> In common with every other ARM-based SoC, using the VideoCore IV 3d graphics core on the Pi requires a block of closed-source binary driver The Lima driver for ARM Mali is open source and runs Quake 3!
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by zurn 13y ago
Can you provide a link? A quick web search only turns up the "sql" package - that seems to be just a low-level SQL interface that doesn't prescribe much.
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by zurn 13y ago
In common language Scandinavia is frequently used synonymously with the Nordic countries. WP backs that up too.

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